Miars said it can be frustrating 

for transfer students — who are 
not entering college for the first 
time — to be treated like freshmen 
who are coming to the University 
from high school. However, she 
notes the University cannot treat 
transfer students like returning 
sophomores or juniors either.

“There’s also the danger of 

going the complete opposite way 
and being like: ‘Transfer students 
have already been to college, 
they already know everything 
and they don’t need our help,’” 
she said. “That attitude can also 
be problematic: We are new to 
this University, and there are 
things we don’t understand and 
challenges to overcome.”

Klootwyk 
and 
Miars 
said 

transfer students face additional 
challenges when choosing the 
right classes, joining campus 
organizations, securing housing 
and making new friends.

According to data provided 

by Public Affairs, the University 
received 
3,691 
transfer 

applications 
in 
total 
during 

Spring, Summer and Fall 2014 
— of those, 1,408 were offered 

admission and 1,041 enrolled.

This would place the 2014 

acceptance rate for transfer 
applications at about 38 percent, 
slightly higher than the 32 
percent 
acceptance 
rate 
for 

freshmen applications for the 
academic year 2014, calculated 
using data from the Office of 
Undergraduate 
Admissions’ 

“Admitted Student Profile.”

About 
53 
percent 
of 
the 

enrolling transfer students were 
out-of-state students.

Less than 35 percent of the 

applications came from students 
at two-year schools, while fewer 
than 65 percent came from 
students at four-year schools 
and the remaining few came 
from students whose current 
enrollment 
was 
unknown, 

according to the data set.

One hundred sixty students 

applied 
to 
transfer 
to 
the 

University 
from 
Washtenaw 

Community 
College, 
and 
of 

those, 51 percent were offered 
admission.

This 
year, 
the 
CSG 

Commission on Transfer Student 
Resources conducted a survey of 
334 current transfer students at 
the University.

The survey found that 75 

percent of respondents said they 
utilize some form of financial 
assistance. 
Fifty 
percent 
of 

participants self-reported their 
socioeconomic status as upper-
middle or upper class, 18 percent 
said they are lower-middle class 
and 15 percent identified as 
working class.

Additionally, 51 percent of 

current 
student 
participants 

transferred from a domestic four-
year institution, 40 percent from 
a domestic two-year community 
college and the remaining 9 
percent 
from 
international 

colleges and universities.

From community college to 

the University

Klootwyk said while many 

students would love to attend 
a university immediately after 
graduating from high school, for 
some students, that is not a realistic 
option for various reasons.

“You want to be able to tell 

everybody: ‘I’m going to MSU’ or 
‘I’m going to U of M,’” Klootwyk 
said. “And so even after a 
successful high school career, I 
went to Muskegon Community 
College. And that wasn’t the 

most glorious choice, but it was 
the cheaper option, and I am 
paying for it.”

He 
said 
though 
he 
was 

unable to come straight to the 
University after high school, 
living at home with his family 
to attend community college for 
two years saved money.

Miars said because Grand 

Valley — a state university — is 
set up similarly to the University, 
she feels she had less difficulty 
adjusting when she transferred 
than her friends and peers who 
attended 
community 
college 

before the University.

“There are just additional 

challenges 
coming 
from 
a 

community college,” she said. 
“Obviously it’s just a different 
academic setting than a four-
year institution, and so there’s 
additional challenges adjusting 
to that.”

Advising and mentoring

Klootwyk said the University 

has some resources to help 
transfer 
students 
assimilate, 

and both he and Miars have 
dedicated their time at the 
University to both improving 
those that currently exist as well 
as developing more.

“There are some resources 

that are really strong and are 
possibly under-utilized, he said. 
“And then there are resources 
that simply don’t exist that 
possibly ought to.”

One of these existing resources 

is 
Transfer 
Orientation 
for 

admitted students.

Klootwyk said orientation can 

be an enormous tool for transfer 
students and can help them 
get a feel for campus life, learn 
about student organizations and 
explore possible housing options.

“However, there’s a downside 

in that for transfer students, 
orientation is much shorter (than 
freshman orientation) — it’s a 
one-day, five-hour process,” he 
said. “At a university this size, 
how much can you tell someone 
in one afternoon?”

Another 
such 
resource 
is 

Transfer Connections, a peer-
mentoring program run by the 
Office of New Student Programs 
for LSA students.

Transfer Connections offers 

new students a chance to join 
together in small groups led by 
former transfer students to ease 

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and family before bringing 
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animal’s chances of being 
adopted might be higher if 
a potential owner has some 
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Netanyahu faces 
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JERUSALEM (AP) — With a 

resounding election victory last 
month, Israeli Prime Minister 
Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to 
have an easy path toward quickly 
establishing a coalition govern-
ment with his traditional nation-
alist, religious and ultra-Orthodox 
Jewish allies.

But after weeks of negotiations 

with potential partners, Netanya-
hu is finding the task harder than 
expected and is flirting with the 
idea of reaching out to his main 
dovish rivals to form a unity gov-
ernment. As he decides which 

path to take, he will seek an addi-
tional two-week extension to put 
his coalition together.

Which way Netanyahu goes 

will have broad implications. If 
he sides with the hard-line allies 
that he often calls his “natural” 
partners, Netanyahu will have a 
solid parliamentary majority of 
like-minded parties that could 
avoid much of the infighting that 
plagued the outgoing government 
and provide some welcome politi-
cal stability at home.

But such a coalition — averse to 

peace moves with the Palestinians 
and in favor of expanded settle-
ment construction in the West 
Bank — quickly would find itself 
on a collision course with the 
international community at a time 
when Netanyahu is already feud-
ing with his allies over the mori-
bund peace process and a nuclear 
deal with Iran that he loathes. A 

unity government that includes 
his leftist rivals would help blunt 
that looming international isola-
tion.

Throughout the heated cam-

paign, Netanyahu ruled out the 
possibility of joining forces with 
Isaac Herzog and his center-left 
Zionist Union and vowed to rule 
from the right.

Election results gave his Likud 

Party 30 seats and secured him 
a potential 67-seat majority of 
the 120-seat Knesset along with 
his traditional allies. In negotia-
tions, however, these allies have 
made demands to head power-
ful government ministries, and 
an initial four-week window to 
form a new government is now 
set to expire.

On Monday, he is scheduled 

to meet Israel’s largely ceremo-
nial president, Reuven Rivlin, and 
seek a two-week extension. Under 
Israeli election rules, if he fails to 
form a coalition during that time 
Rivlin then can assign someone else 
the task of doing so.

Israeli prime minister could 
unite with dovish opponents 

